PHOTOS: A look at the Bay Bridge then and now

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A high steel worker named Joe Walton claimed responsibility for the myth that a man was buried in the concrete on the center anchorage. He and his friends played a prank and packed a pair of shoes into the concrete on the center anchorage, which quickly spread the rumor that someone was buried there. (Photo courtesy baybridgeinfo.org)
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